This is a journalist reminiscing about the reason he became a journalist. Nixon made stars out of formerly anonymous newspaper reporters resulting in narcissistic leftists with ivy league college degrees entering the profession and destroying it.
And what exactly would your hero Margaret Sanger’s words tell us about eugenicist ghouls such as yourself, Christopher?
Have another belt of scotch and give it some thought.
Well most intellegent people do mature and grow up to become atleast a moderate. There still are the perpetually immature and we call them liberals. :)
How soon people forget that Nixon’s racial attitudes weren’t so unique at all, but merely a reflection of quite a wide swath of society at the time. Interracial relationships *weren’t* mainstream by any stretch. Remember the interracial kiss on Star Trek with Kirk and Ohura? Caused quite a stir.
Nowadays we yawn and wonder what all the fuss was about, but we cannot directly interpret past attitudes and actions through a present-day moralistic prism. It’s utterly unfair. Nixon’s attitudes on race weren’t anything unusual for the time.
Yes the MSM hysteria reached the point where conservatives had to support the removal of a president.
What did Nixon do that no other president had done? Seriously.
Re: racists.
Al Gore senior, William Fulbright, Lyndon Johnson, . . . .
.. and before the 1960s there are lots of hits when you look for Democrat racist history. As for Nixon and his Christian friends virtually "owning" anti-Semitism well I don't think so.
As for Hitchens' claim that a huge number of American lives and an incalculable number of Vietnamese ones were thrown away to end the war on more shameful terms than had been on offer in the fall of 1968 just look at the post-war comments of the VN Communists.. what really did keep them in the war after their defeat in the Tet Offensive? The American press and the "anti-war" activities in the U.S., that's what! Hitchens and his street rabble friends and pro-Ho heroes.
To wit, "A Vietnamese journalist who was sympathetic to the communist cause during the war and who escaped to Paris after the fall of South Viet Nam had this to say: 'A physician who makes an error kills his patient; a general who makes an error kills his division; a journalist who makes an error kills an entire country.' And this was exactly what happened in Viet Nam. General Vo Nguyen Giap stated in a French television broadcast that his most important guerilla during the war was the American press. This was indeed a tragic compliment! The U.S. media coverage of the Tet Offensive was a classic case of irresponsible reporting . . . ."
1973? That was 35 years ago. The majority of Obama voters hadn’t even been born yet.
What those tapes tell us about the GOP? Nothing. That was almost 4 decades ago, Nixon is long dead, as are most of the people he had with him. It’s about as relevant as the campaign musings of Dewey when defeated by Truman.
Here’s a very good book on Nixon:
The wars of Watergate By Stanley I. Kutle